The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum just screams for counter-programming. The get-together, colloquially called “Davos” because it happens in a quaint little town in Switzerland, is billed as a place where “the foremost leaders from government, business, and civil society” can “confront shared challenges and drive innovations driving the future.” Considering all of […]
I just finished a demo trying to capture Alice’s interaction with the Caterpillar (without resorting to drug theme, which kinda misses the point anyway):
What better way to spend the early morning hours of the first day of 2026 finishing a song demo! Here’s Bill:
OpenAI is recruiting for a “Head of Preparedness.” I applied earlier today. The company describes the role as being “directly responsible leader for building and coordinating capability evaluations, threat models, and mitigations that form a coherent, rigorous, and operationally scalable safety pipeline.” Of course, that’s mostly nonsense, or at best happy but unenforceable ethics, since […]
I just finished the third song — A Sad Tail — which recounts Alice interpreting the Mouse’s story as gibberish and then looking at his tail and wondering how it could be sad:
Here’s song #2 for Wonderland Revisited: It’s called Poor Alice:
A new research report from physicists at the University of British Columbia claims there’s mathematical proof that there’s some “understanding” in the cosmos that exists beyond any capacity for us to describe or explain it. They did their study to challenge the premise that our universe is a computer simulation (and, by association, that we […]
I just finished the first demo for Wonderland Revisited; it’s called Down, Down, Down:
I started composing work over the weekend on the next Mortal Fools gig: Wonderland Revisited. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was Lewis Carroll’s first novel, published in 1865 though begun two years earlier as a real-time invention as Carroll was boating with friend and his three kids. It stands among firsts in children’s literature as well […]
I’ve closed my Linkedin account. The decision was easy, based on three factors: First, it was no longer a place where I could comfortably represent myself. Having closed my business after a few decades’ of work, it had become a shrine to who I was and what I did. One could argue that my work […]